Inshore

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  • adverb & adjective. Close to a shore.
  • adverb & adjective. Toward or coming toward a shore.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Near the shore; toward the shore; on the shore side: as, the ship lay, or was moving, inshore.
  • Situated near the shore; relatively near to the shore; specifically, as applied to fishing or fisheries, situated within about five miles of the shore: opposed to offshore: as, inshore fishing.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Being near or moving towards the shore
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Close to (especially in sight of) a shore
  • adjective. Blowing from the sea to the land
  • adverb. Near the shore
  • adverb. Towards the shore
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
  • adjective. close to a shore
  • adverb. toward the shore
    • Word Usage
    "As a strong current runs close inshore which is constantly changing its course, and there were no lights or landmarks to guide us, it was a matter of great difficulty to find the very narrow entrance to the river."
    cross-reference
    deep-sea  ensure  insure  offshore  
    Equivalent
    coastal  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boer  Bohr  C4  Dior  Dore  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aft  cliffy  deep-sea  deep-water  dive-bombing  
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